Workshop presented by: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Languages: French and English

Apple, trout, earthworm, squirrel, measles virus, E.coli bacteria, boletus? Depending on the species you find in a biological sample, you can identify its source: air, water or soil. The more different species you discover, the more you can validate your results.

To do this, you'll put yourself in the shoes of a bioinformatician detective and analyse traces of DNA found in biological samples.

DNA is universal, but DNA sequences are specific to a species and enable it to be identified, rather like a barcode. This is what is known as metagenomics.

It's up to you to find the species present in 3 surprise samples!

Click here to find out more about Metagenomics!

Workshop led by: Dr. Marie-Claude Blatter (Outreach manager - SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), Dr. Valérie Barbié (Director Clinical Bioinformatics)